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Yucca? Watch the spikes if it's in a public area, some people snip the ends of the leaves off for this reason.
It's a Yucca plant. Have seen a few flowering this year for some reason. They normally just sit there. One of my regular customers has had one in her garden for 18 years and never flowered, but this year it has sprouted just like the one in your photo.
Sadly there's now a chance that this plant will die, although once mature it may go on for a long time.
Phil, I don't think yuccas are monocarpic, are they? So long since I did my training it's hard to remember!
I've seen plenty flowering and not dying, and flowering is largely down to climatic conditions in the UK so it won't happen every year IME. I've seen them killed off by severe winters, but usually regenerate from the base.
Yucca's are definitely not mono-carpic (at least not that one!)
Yuccas aren't usually monocarpic. Can't remember the species of this one (got it on the nursery somewhere). Interesting fact coming up- gardeners are experimenting with Beschorneria and Furcraea as alternatives for the 'jagged look'; Yuccas always have sharp and stiff tips that will easily prick your finger, whereas the other two are soft and flexible at the tip.
Picked this tip up years ago; maybe it might one day be useful to somebody...?!
No, there's no certainty it will die at all but older plants can just perish.
As I said, it could go on for a long time.
Thanks guys overall....my Mum would have admonished me if I'd sent those images to her alone. Hectic, hectic.....time to stop and consider things around here, I should have known it as a Yucca.
It's most definitely not a Beschorneria and Furcraea since the landlord was extremely excited about the discovery and in his enthusiasm pricked himself around vital areas a couple of times. I winced :->
Thanks again, Eugene
Haha, mental picture.
Having said that I punched myself in my 'vital areas' today in an attempt to squash a horsefly! Ouch!
I'm a bit worried that the question was asked.
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